Dawam
for iPhone
The idea
A prayer is a window, not a time.
Other apps print the moment a prayer begins. What decides whether you prayed on time is how much of its window is left — so that is what this one shows.
Not on the App Store yet
Dawam is in development. When it is listed, the link will be here. Until then you are welcome to write — questions about the calculation method or the shield are the ones I most like getting.
It gets harder to ignore
Only because you asked it to. Every step below is one you turn on yourself, and every one of them can be turned off again.
A notification. Nothing is blocked.
The apps you chose go behind a shield.
It says so plainly.
Everything unlocks. It becomes qada, not a punishment.
Logging the prayer takes all of it down at once. You choose which apps are shielded, and there is always a way through — an app that can genuinely lock you out of your own phone is one you should not trust.
What else is in it
Five prayers, the ones around them, and the parts of keeping a record that most apps leave out.
Times calculated for where you are
Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha, from your city. The calculation method follows the authority used in your region rather than asking you to choose between twelve of them, and the Asr madhab and the rule closing Isha are yours to set.
A qada ledger that forgives properly
Missed prayers are owed, not held against you. The ledger counts them, makes up the oldest first as is the common practice, and restores the day each one was missed on when you settle it. You can enter an older estimate separately — it stays a planning count, not a reconstruction of a history you never kept.
Travel and the excuse period
On a journey, qasr shortens what is owed. Menstruation and postpartum lift the obligation entirely — those prayers are neither owed later nor counted against you, and the app marks those days that way rather than leaving gaps that look like misses.
A record you can read
Which prayer slips, how often you were inside the window, your longest streak, and a month at a glance. Every state has its own shape as well as its own colour, so the record reads without relying on hue.
Qibla
A dial that turns with the phone. Without a compass it shows the bearing from north instead — correct either way.
A widget and a Live Activity
The current window on the Home Screen, and on the Lock Screen while it is open. You can log the prayer from the Live Activity without unlocking.
Six languages
English, العربية, Français, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu and Türkçe — Arabic fully right-to-left, with Arabic-Indic numerals if you want them.
Your record never leaves this device
Prayer history is among the most personal data a person has. This app treats it that way, and the architecture is the proof rather than the promise: there is no networking code in it to send anything anywhere.
- No account, no sign-in, nothing to create
- No analytics, no advertising, no tracking
- No server — your prayers are stored only on your iPhone
- Reminders are scheduled on the device, not sent to it
- Free — the only purchase is an optional tip, and nothing is behind it
What it will not do
It does not scold
A missed window is recorded and moved past. The app has no opinion of you, and nothing in it is written to make you feel watched.
It does not celebrate a late prayer
Praying after the window closed is still praying, and it is logged as exactly that — neither congratulated nor marked as failure.
It does not share your record
There are no friends, no leaderboards and no streaks anyone else can see. The streak is between you and your own week.